Note on the taxonomy of Frenkelia microti (Findlay & Middleton, 1934) (Apicomplexa: Sarcocystidae)

Systematic Parasitology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 185-187

  Modrý, David ^a,b   Votýpka, Jan ^b,c   Svobodová, Milena ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COCCIDIA; GENETICS; NOMENCLATURE; PARASITOLOGY; RODENT;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RODENTIA; SARCOCYSTIDAE; TERMINOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; COCCIDIA; FRENKELIA; FRENKELIA MICROTI; RODENTIA; SARCOCYSTIDAE; SARCOCYSTIS;

EID: 3442887766     PISSN: 01655752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:SYPA.0000032924.63708.57     Document Type: Article

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